Bojack

The dust raised by flying racing bikes has people in the stands nauseating, but Bojack is too excited to care about that. He has always dreamed of being in one of these bikes himself one day and impress Jia by proving he is no ordinary horse. He is taking a trial today and she had promised to come watch. He had tried previous year, but they had denied him from even trying out, giving excuses about how will his hooves handle the steering, how he will end up braking down the bike under his weight.

His uncle Bojinx had said the real reason is bureaucracy in the league and not Bojack’s fault, but of course his uncle was making up things, as a drunken horse often does. Well, Bojack has lost a many pounds and worked on mobility of his hooves, he really hopes it does better this year.

He goes in all excited, shows them how he is leaner now and able to navigate his hooves and rear legs as he wanted. But they still rejected him, saying he is not tall enough this time. He tried arguing, pleading but to no avail.

As he is walking out the selectors room feeling defeated, a bike swooshed past really fast, really close to the barriers next to sitting pavilion. People were cheering, but Bojack could sense something was wrong. If he doesn’t take the inside line at turn 3, he will likely have to cut the curb around turn 5 which means…

Bang!! a sudden explosion on the turn 7 straight silenced the cheering crowd. Of course the driver would be fine because the safety measures are better these days. But still that sound…

Bojack’s instincts kicked in, he pushed open one of the maintenance gates and ran toward the accident spot. Axiel, the cat who was driving it, is thankfully moving about. This relaxed him a little bit. He got on to unhinging the knee paddles. The marshals came in and took over the rest of it. Axiel gave him a semblance of a nod, as a thank you for saving his life.

As Bojack is making his way out, he realizes all other try-out candidates are just going out. The accident must have discouraged them. He goes on to the selectors panel and pleads them for one more chance. This time they are persuaded and even lauded him for showing character in a moment of panic. Bojack is determined to make the most out of this chance.

After cleanup of track is done, he is on the racing bike ready to live on his dream for the first time. He scans the crowd and sees Jia there waving towards him. He smiles and waves back. He puts his helmet visor down, it was hammer time…